Man gets prison for thefts from NY state archive

A man who admitted stealing historic documents from New York state archives and selling them on eBay has been sentenced to two to six years in prison.

Investigators say Daniel Lorello, a 55-year-old former archives and records management specialist in the state Department of Education, stole about 200 documents dating from the Civil War and sold them over the course of two years.

Items from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt were among the documents sold online.

At his sentencing Thursday, Lorello was also ordered to pay $129,500 in restitution and penalties and must turn over his personal collection of artifacts to the state. He pleaded guilty in August to a felony count of second-degree grand larceny.